Patents Issued in May 21, 2024
  • Patent number: 11987038
    Abstract: An acoustic attenuation panel including: a main layer made of a porous material and having two opposite faces; a coating layer arranged on one of the two faces of the main layer; an adhesive film, arranged at the interface between the main layer and the coating layer to assemble same. The main layer is a body made of melamine resin foam having a density between 6 and 6.8 kg/m3 and a porosity rate between 0.978 and 0.984; the coating layer is a fabric with a density between 484 and 526 kg/m3 and a porosity rate between 0.771 and 0.817; the adhesive film is a film made of a thermoplastic material provided with holes passing through and having a surface density between 40 g/m2 and 56 g/m2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: ARIANEGROUP SAS
    Inventors: Bernard Troclet, Pierre Godart
  • Patent number: 11987039
    Abstract: The present disclosure belongs to the technical field of PVC foam co-extruded sheets, and particularly relates to a wide low-temperature impact-resistant and bending-resistant PVC foam co-extruded sheet and a preparation method thereof. The PVC foam co-extruded sheet of the present disclosure includes a core layer and a skin layer. Raw materials of the core layer include PVC resin powder, a silicone-methyl methacrylate-ethyl acrylate composite low-temperature toughening and reinforcing agent, a filler, a foaming regulator I, a white foaming agent, a calcium-zinc stabilizer, a cold-resistant plasticizer, stearic acid, polyethylene wax, and oxidized polyethylene wax.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: BODO PLASTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Feng Sun, Jian Ma, Wei Miao, Zhonglin Zhang, Guoqing Yang, Changming Wang
  • Patent number: 11987040
    Abstract: Provided is a releasing member-integrated transfer sheet capable of improving both the conveyability on forming an image on a transfer layer and the transferability on transferring the transfer layer onto a transfer receiving article. A releasing member-integrated transfer sheet includes a releasing member including a first support and an adhesive layer provided on the first support, and a transfer sheet including a second support and a transfer layer provided on the second support, the transfer sheet being integrated with the releasing member such that the adhesive layer is opposed to the second support. The transfer layer is peelable from the second support, and the adhesive force between the second support and the adhesive layer is smaller than the adhesive force between the first support and the adhesive layer to thereby make the releasing member separable from the transfer sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuhei Yoshino, Shinya Yoda
  • Patent number: 11987041
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a display module, including: a flexible panel, a first group of film layers attached to a light-emitting side of the flexible panel, and a second group of film layers attached to a non-light-emitting side of the flexible panel away from the light-emitting side. The display module is capable of being folded to a curved plate, such that at least a portion of an orthographic projection of the display module on a first plane perpendicular to the curved plate has a shape of a water-drop profile comprising a neck portion and a body portion. At least a portion of orthographic projections, on the first plane, of two opposite ends of the display module forms the neck portion, and an orthographic projection, on the first plane, of a middle portion of the display module between the two opposite ends forms the body portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liming Dong, Shiming Shi, Lu Liu, Lijuan Zhao, Zhao Li
  • Patent number: 11987042
    Abstract: A method of printing radiopaque indicia on a medical device. The method includes applying radiopaque marking fluid to a surface of a plate comprising one or more etchings having a depth of at least 0.0001 inches, exposing the radiopaque marking fluid on the surface of the plate to air to allow the radiopaque marking fluid to achieve a sufficient level of tackiness, and transferring the radiopaque marking fluid to a medical device. The radiopaque marking fluid comprises a clear ink and tungsten particulates having a particulate size of more than one micron.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Medical Components, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark S. Fisher, Raymond D. Hawley
  • Patent number: 11987043
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a conveyance unit configured to convey a sheet along a conveyance path, a printing unit configured to print an image by discharging ink to the sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit, a heating unit configured to, in a heating section on the conveyance path, heat the sheet on which the image has been printed by the printing unit, and a control unit configured to control the heating unit so that the heating section is changed in accordance with a print condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takuya Hamada
  • Patent number: 11987044
    Abstract: Panels having a decorative surface may include a plate shaped substrate and a top layer, and the top layer may include a paper layer having a printed pattern. A method for manufacturing such panels may involve providing the paper layer with a treatment, including providing the paper layer with an ink receiving substance. The treated paper layer may be provided with at least a portion of the printed pattern by depositing pigment containing inks using a digital inkjet printer. The pigment containing inks may be water-based. The digital inkjet printer may include print heads with nozzles for firing droplets of pigment containing inks onto the treated paper layer. The paper layer may be fed from a roll, printed upon, and rolled back up again. The paper layer, while printing, may be flexible and may be attached to the plate shaped substrate after printing. A layer of thermosetting resin may be applied above the paper layer and the printed pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Unilin, BV
    Inventors: Benjamin Clement, Luc De Boe
  • Patent number: 11987045
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a conveyance unit including a pair of rotation members that nip a roll sheet, and configured to convey the sheet by rotation of the pair of rotation members, a printing unit, and a control unit configured to, upon executing a new print job, cause the conveyance unit to perform a preparatory operation in which the sheet is conveyed in a forward direction and then conveyed in a reverse direction and stopped. If a predetermined condition is met after completion of a previous print job, the control unit causes the conveyance unit to perform the preparatory operation, and if the predetermined condition is not met after completion of a previous print job, the control unit does not cause the conveyance unit to perform the preparatory operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takuya Suto, Toshiro Sugiyama, Ryosuke Murata, Daigo Kuronuma, Kenji Shimamura, Ryo Harigae, Toshiaki Yamaguchi, Kouhei Tokuda
  • Patent number: 11987046
    Abstract: A printing apparatus comprises a conveyance unit configured to convey a sheet to a printing unit configured to perform printing; a control unit configured to cause the conveyance unit to hold the sheet onto which printing was performed by the printing unit; and a receiving unit configured to receive an ejection instruction for instructing to eject the sheet. The control unit, in a case where the receiving unit receives the ejection instruction, controls the conveyance unit to eject the sheet to outside of the apparatus after a predetermined time has elapsed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryosuke Murata, Takuya Suto, Toshiro Sugiyama, Daigo Kuronuma, Kenji Shimamura, Ryo Harigae, Toshiaki Yamaguchi, Kouhei Tokuda
  • Patent number: 11987047
    Abstract: Various embodiments illustrated herein disclose a printing apparatus comprising a media supply spool configured to supply print media along a media path. The printing apparatus further comprises a first media sensor positioned in a first plane in the printing apparatus. Further, the printing apparatus comprises a second media sensor positioned in a second plane in the printing apparatus. Additionally, the printing apparatus comprises a first media guide defining a section of the media path, wherein extremities of the first media guide are positioned to be at a negative offset from the second plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Sebastien d'Armancourt, Han Tiong Tong, Chin Young Wong
  • Patent number: 11987048
    Abstract: A driving device includes a piezoelectric element, a driving electrode, a first switch that performs switching whether to electrically couple the first wire to the driving electrode, a detection circuit that detects, via a second wire, a vibration produced in the piezoelectric element, a second switch that performs switching whether to electrically couple the second wire to the driving electrode, and a determination circuit that determines a state of the piezoelectric element. The second switch remains off during a first period, remains on during a second period subsequent to the first period, remains off during a third period subsequent to the second period, and remains on during a fourth period subsequent to the third period. The determination circuit determines a state of the piezoelectric element, based on a detection result of the detection circuit in at least part of the fourth period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Daichi Orihara, Masashi Kamiyanagi
  • Patent number: 11987049
    Abstract: A method of forming a feature by dispensing a metallic nanoparticle composition from an ink-jet print head is disclosed. A jetting waveform is applied to piezoelectric actuator to dispense droplets of the metallic nanoparticle composition through nozzle opening. The droplets range in volume between 0.5 picoliter and 2.0 picoliter. The jetting waveform includes an intermediate contraction waveform portion, a final contraction waveform portion after the intermediate contraction waveform portion, and an expansion waveform portion after the final contraction waveform portion. During the intermediate contraction waveform portion, an applied voltage increases from an initial low voltage to an intermediate voltage and then is held at the intermediate voltage. During the final contraction waveform portion, the applied voltage increases from the intermediate voltage to maximum voltage and then is held at the maximum voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: XTPL S.A.
    Inventors: Mateusz Lysien, Ludovic Schneider, Grzegorz Tarapata, Filip Granek
  • Patent number: 11987050
    Abstract: A droplet ejection device includes a processor; and a memory device configured to store a program, the program executed by the processor to cause the processor to: acquire information of a droplet ejection unit including a plurality of nozzles, the plurality of nozzles moving in a first direction toward an object and ejecting a droplet; and set ejection conditions of the droplet in each of the plurality of nozzles based on the acquired information of the droplet ejection unit. The droplet ejection device further may include an inspection unit configured to inspect the nozzle. The information of the nozzle may include information of a shape in a tip of the nozzle. It is possible to eject a droplet in a stable and consistent manner at a predetermined position by using one embodiment of the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: SIJTechnology, Inc.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Murata
  • Patent number: 11987051
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid discharge head includes a pressure chamber and a nozzle. The pressure chamber extends in a first direction from a first end to a second end and forms a flow path for a fluid to be ejected from the nozzle. The nozzle is for ejecting liquid from the pressure chamber in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The nozzle is at a position offset from a midpoint of the pressure chamber in the first direction towards one of the first or second ends of the pressure chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Jun Takamura
  • Patent number: 11987052
    Abstract: A nozzle plate of a fluid ejection head for a fluid ejection device, a fluid ejection head containing the nozzle plate, and a method for making the fluid ejection head containing the nozzle plate. The nozzle plate includes at least two arrays of nozzle holes on opposing sides of a fluid supply via etched in an ejection head substrate and a photoresist layer attached to an exposed surface of the nozzle plate spanning a section of the nozzle plate between the at least two arrays of nozzle holes. The photoresist layer increases a thickness of the nozzle plate between the at least two arrays of nozzle holes to greater than 25 microns up to about 100 microns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD
    Inventors: David C. Graham, Sean T. Weaver
  • Patent number: 11987053
    Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a holder, a fixing member, multiple liquid dischargers, and multiple couplings. The fixing member is detachably attached to the holder. The multiple liquid dischargers are secured to the fixing member and arranged side by side in a vertical arrangement direction. The multiple liquid dischargers include respective liquid conveyors. The multiple couplings couple the respective liquid conveyors and respective liquid containers. One of the liquid conveyors of a lower one of the multiple liquid dischargers is longer in a direction intersecting the vertical arrangement direction than another one of the liquid conveyors of an upper one of the multiple liquid dischargers above the lower one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Satoshi Kunioka
  • Patent number: 11987054
    Abstract: An ink tube according to an embodiment includes a flexible tube body through which an ink flows, and a liquid repellent membrane which coats at least an inner surface of the flexible tube body. The liquid repellent membrane comprising a fluorine compound having a binding moiety containing a silicon atom and a carbon atom and a perfluoroalkyl group of four or fewer carbon atoms. The binding moiety is covalently bonded directly to the inner surface of the flexible tube body, and the perfluoroalkyl group is at a terminal end of the fluorine compound opposite from an end of the binding moiety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masashi Seki
  • Patent number: 11987055
    Abstract: A fluidic die may include a fluid channel layer defining a number of fluid channels therein, a slot layer disposed on a side of the fluid channel layer, and a first fluid slot and a second fluid slot defined in the slot layer. At least one of the fluid channels fluidically couples the first fluid slot to the second fluid slot. The first fluid slot and the second fluid slot are defined in the slot layer along a length of the fluidic die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jacob Lum, Jeremy Sells, Si-lam Choy
  • Patent number: 11987056
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid ejection head including plural liquid chambers arranged in rows, each liquid chamber being provided with an orifice configured to eject liquid filling the liquid chamber and an ejection energy generating element, wherein the liquid ejection head includes: a liquid supply path that extends in a direction that the plural liquid chambers are arranged and individually communicates with the plural liquid chambers; a direction change flow path that communicates with the liquid supply path and extends in a direction transverse to the liquid supply path; and a common supply flow path that communicates with the direction change flow path and extends in a direction transverse to the direction change flow path, such that the direction change flow path includes a body portion and at least one grooved flow path, which is narrower than the body portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasuhiko Osaki
  • Patent number: 11987057
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a main casing; a supply cartridge attachable to the main casing; a printing mechanism; a display; and a controller configured to perform: determining, based on information inputted into the controller, whether an agreement is made for the image forming apparatus; setting, when an agreement is made for the image forming apparatus, an operation mode for the image forming apparatus to a pre-contract mode; determining under the pre-contract mode whether a type of the supply cartridge attached to the main casing is a normal type or a subscription type; displaying, when the type of the supply cartridge attached to the main casing is the normal type, information related to the pre-contract mode on the display; and setting, when the type of the supply cartridge attached to the main casing is the subscription type, the operation mode from the pre-contract mode to a formal contract mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Noriaki Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 11987058
    Abstract: In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a method is described. According to the method, a pump is selectively activated to draw print fluid from a print fluid delivery system towards a reclamation container. It is detected when a reservoir of the print fluid delivery system is empty. In response to an indication that the reservoir is empty, the pump is selectively deactivated to terminate a print fluid reclamation process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Paul Allan Osborne, John Patrick Sturman
  • Patent number: 11987059
    Abstract: An inkjet printing apparatus includes a tank in which ink is contained; a print head for ejecting ink supplied from the tank to perform print operation; a supply flow path for supplying ink from the tank to the print head; a collection flow path for collecting ink from the print head to the tank; and a pump provided in the supply flow path or the collection flow path. The pump is driven, during print operation, at a first speed to circulate ink within a circulation path including the tank, the supply flow path, the print head, and the collection flow path, and the pump is driven, from a start of the ink circulation until a lapse of predetermined time period, at a second speed which is faster than the first speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junya Kosuge, Yumi Mukoyama, Toshiaki Tokisawa, Tsuyoshi Saeki, Takashi Abe
  • Patent number: 11987060
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a liquid discharge device and processing circuitry. The liquid discharge device includes at least one nozzle group, where N represents an integer, to discharge liquid. The processing circuitry causes the first nozzle group to discharge in a first scan, causes the second nozzle group to discharge in a second scan, and causes the N-th nozzle group to discharge in an N-th scan to form a complete image. The processing circuitry, with respect to an image completion rate indicating a rate of an image formed by each of the first nozzle group to the N-th nozzle group in the complete image, sets the image completion rate of a portion of the first nozzle group adjacent to the second nozzle group in the sub-scanning direction to be not higher than the image completion rate of any one of the second nozzle group to the N-th nozzle group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Takayuki Ito
  • Patent number: 11987061
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a recording head and processing circuitry. The recording head includes a plurality of nozzles. The processing circuitry prints a reference adjustment pattern on a recording medium using a reference nozzle, which is one of the nozzles. When the recording medium is conveyed from the reference nozzle in a sub-scanning direction by a predetermined conveyance amount, the processing circuitry prints an adjustment pattern on the recording medium using a designated nozzle, which is apart by a predetermined distance with respect to a nozzle apart from the reference nozzle in the sub scanning direction by the predetermined conveyance amount. The processing circuitry detects the reference adjustment pattern and the adjustment pattern, computes a distance between the reference adjustment pattern and the adjustment pattern in the sub-scanning direction, and determines whether a standard deviation of the distance computed is equal to or larger than a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Satoshi Iwanami
  • Patent number: 11987062
    Abstract: A method for correcting an image includes: moving first and second ink jet heads and a medium relative to each other, each of the first and second ink jet heads including nozzles and drive elements corresponding to the nozzles respectively; discharging ink droplets from the nozzles of the first and second ink jet heads, by connecting each of the drive elements to one of power supply circuits and by applying voltage to each of the drive elements, the power supply circuits having different output voltage values each other; determining a density difference between a first image region and a second image region; and switching the voltage to be applied to first drive elements to a first voltage by switching the power supply circuits to be connected to the first drive elements based on the density difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiki Kato, Hiroto Sugahara, Taro Nagano
  • Patent number: 11987063
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: an apparatus body held by a user and provided with a printing unit configured to perform printing in a case of being moved in a first direction; a first guide unit configured to guide the movement in the first direction; a second guide unit rotatably held with respect to a structure fixed to the apparatus body and configured to guide movement in a second direction intersecting with the first direction; and a drive unit configured to be connected with the second guide unit and to rotate the second guide unit so that the structure moves to the second direction relative to the second guide unit by driving of the drive unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakai, Tetsuyo Ohashi, Akira Kida, Sho Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11987064
    Abstract: A cassette includes a printing tape roll being rotatable and into which a printing tape as a medium to be printed is wound, and an outer peripheral wall disposed on one side in a first direction relative to the printing tape roll. The first direction is a width direction of the printing tape. The outer peripheral wall includes a first side wall extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, a second side wall extending in a third direction orthogonal to the first direction and intersecting with the second direction, and a recess wall defining a recess extending from the second side wall toward one side in the second direction. The recess extends in the third direction on one side in the second direction further than the second side wall. At least a portion of the recess overlaps the printing tape roll in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kentaro Murayama
  • Patent number: 11987065
    Abstract: A dual function tooling tray having a movable center section includes a perimeter frame having four sides, a first frame member spaced from a first side of the perimeter frame, and a second frame member spaced from a second side of the perimeter frame. The first side and the second side of the perimeter frame are parallel with one another. The tooling tray further includes a third frame member extending between and secured to the first frame member and the second frame member. The third frame member is configured to support at least one squeegee blade. The third frame member is configured be to be moved from a first position from the first frame member and the second frame member and installed in a second position on the first frame member and the second frame member, with the second position being spaced from the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: William A. Losiewicz, James Lynch
  • Patent number: 11987066
    Abstract: An optical security element made of a refractive transparent or partially transparent optical material and comprising an optical assembly of a caustic layer having a light-redirecting surface with a relief pattern of given depth and a focal length fC and an adjacent lens element of focal length fL configured to redirect incident light received from a point-like light source through it and to form a projected image containing a caustic pattern directly on a retina of an observer. A marked object, as well as a method of visually authenticating an object, and use of optical security elements for authenticating or securing against counterfeiting are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: SICPA HOLDING SA
    Inventors: Andrea Callegari, Pierre Degott, Todor Dinoev, Philipp Egger
  • Patent number: 11987067
    Abstract: Personalizing a multipage security document by placing a laser-alterable ink layer on a personalization area of an edge of each of the sequence of pages. The method includes revealing a portion of the personalization area of each of the sequence of pages relative to a pages above said each of the sequence of pages such that the personalization portion of each two consecutive pages in said sequence of pages are located adjacent to one another thereby producing a two-dimensional multi-page personalization section, and creating a pattern on the two-dimensional multi-page personalization section by altering the inked personalization area in the revealed portion of each page of said sequence of pages by exposing said revealed portions to a laser, such that a pattern is visible when the revealed portions of a sequence of pages are viewed simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: THALES DIS FRANCE SAS
    Inventor: Jean-Luc Lesur
  • Patent number: 11987068
    Abstract: A marking pen, comprising: a shaft cylinder; a porous pen core accommodated in the shaft cylinder, and configured to project from, and retract into, an opening part provided at a tip end of the shaft cylinder; an inner cotton accommodated in the shaft cylinder, and filled with an aqueous ink composition to be fed to the pen core, the aqueous ink composition including a water soluble organic solvent in an amount of from 20 mass % to 60 mass %; and a delivery mechanism configured to cause a tip end of the pen core to project from, and retract into, the opening part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Yusuke Kobayashi, Toru Nakajima, Akiko Hirayama, Koji Takada
  • Patent number: 11987069
    Abstract: A carpenter square includes a body including a first, second, and third edges. A fence is pivoted to the first edge for movement among first, second, and third positions. In the first and second positions, the fence is normal to the body. In the third position, the fence is coplanar to the body. A hinge assembly pivots the fence to the body and includes a notch in the body, a recess in the notch, and a tab projecting from the fence and fit over the pin for reciprocating and swinging movement. The tab moves between a neutral stance, in which the tab is mis-registered with the recess and disables movement of the fence among the first, second, and third positions, and an advanced stance, in which the tab is registered with the recess and enables movement of the fence among the first, second, and third positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Inventor: Daniel Wayne McGee
  • Patent number: 11987070
    Abstract: A diamond art drill multiplacer head is disclosed. The multiplacer head may have a tip structure with a wax well having a width less than the cross-sectional dimensions of conventional diamond drills/beads. The tip structure may also have an external width that is also less than the cross-sectional dimensions of the conventional diamond drills and have a thin body thickness. As a result of such dimensions, diamond drills may not get stuck in the wax well of the tip structure and a user may see the outer edges of the diamond drills when placing them on a diamond are painting canvas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: DIAMOND ART CLUB, LLC
    Inventor: Alexandre Perrier
  • Patent number: 11987071
    Abstract: A device for displaying images having variable colors comprises a substrate; a light-transmissive coloring layer painted or laminated on the substrate, the coloring layer comprising colorants of different colors and having a rear side in contact with the substrate and a varnished front side; a display layer comprising a silvering material directly plated on the varnished front side of the coloring layer, the display layer comprising a display pattern forming a visible displayed image, the silvering material comprising a metal, a metalloid, or an oxide thereof to form a one-way-mirror; an illuminator configured and positioned to illuminate the coloring layer from the rear side of the coloring layer. When the coloring layer is unilluminated by the illuminator, the unilluminated coloring layer is hidden behind the one-way-mirror. When the coloring layer is illuminated by the illuminator, the illuminated coloring layer visibly colorizes the displayed image through the one-way-mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Inventors: Jianqiao Yang, Chulong Yang
  • Patent number: 11987072
    Abstract: An artistic presentation in the form of a shadow box is disclosed where the shadow box has been augmented with various dynamic visual effects. One such dynamic visual effect is the movement of water across the shadow box, simulating rain droplets, waterfall, sheets of water, or aerosolized water such as fog or mist. When combined with various lighting effects, the combined dynamic visual presentation permits a constantly changing visual appearance that can recycle and go on indefinitely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Outside The Lines, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Wickham Zimmerman, Christopher J. Roy, Thomas M. Real, Allison N. Long
  • Patent number: 11987073
    Abstract: As described above, one or more aspects of the present disclosure provide articles having structural color, and methods of making articles having structural color. The present disclosure provides for articles (e.g., structurally colored articles) that exhibit different structural colors in different regions of the article using an optical element, where the optical element has different structures (e.g., cross-sectional structures) in at least two of those regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: NIKE, INC.
    Inventors: Jeremy Gantz, Kim Kovel, Yuanmin Wang
  • Patent number: 11987074
    Abstract: As described above, one or more aspects of the present disclosure provide articles having structural color, and methods of making articles having structural color. The article includes the optical element (e.g., a single layer reflector, a single layer filter, a multilayer reflector or a multilayer filter) including one or more layers (e.g., a reflective layer(s), a constituent layer(s), and the like). The surface of the article can include the optical element with regions that impart different structural colors. The different structural colors imparted are due at least in part to the different structure (e.g., cross-sectional structure) of the optical element in certain regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: NIKE, INC.
    Inventors: Jeremy Gantz, Kim Kovel, Yuanmin Wang
  • Patent number: 11987075
    Abstract: A fabricated vehicle wheel comprises a wheel disc and a wheel rim. The wheel disc has an annular hub portion, a center hub hole in the hub portion, opposite inboard and outboard faces of the hub portion, a plurality of circumferentially spaced lug bolt holes in the hub portion, a plurality of lightener pockets in the hub portion, and an extension portion. The lug bolt holes and the lightener pockets alternate around a circumference of the hub portion. An axis extends through the hub hole. The inboard face is planar and configured to mount to a vehicle. The inboard face is perpendicular to the axis and the extension portion extends from the hub portion along the axis. The wheel rim is secured to the extension portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Maxion Wheels Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Joseph W. Wolf, Fernando T. Mitsuyassu
  • Patent number: 11987076
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a caster, and particularly, to a caster which more smoothly rotates when reversely rotating 180° and effectively supports a weight of an object disposed on the caster to smoothly rotate in reverse without any shaking, wherein the caster has a structure in which a central portion, a connecting part, and a lower body part are sequentially provided under a support plate formed in an upper end portion of the caster, and in particular, a rotating part is mounted between the connecting part and the central portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Inventor: Heon Mun Lee
  • Patent number: 11987077
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes first main grooves formed on outer sides, in the lateral direction, of a first land including an equatorial plane and extending in the circumferential direction; second main grooves outside, in the lateral direction, of the first main grooves and extending in the circumferential direction; auxiliary grooves formed on second lands between the first main grooves and the second main grooves, opening to the second main grooves, and terminating in the second lands; and first sipes inclined identically to the auxiliary grooves and crossing the second lands. The auxiliary grooves are formed into a shape bending at a bend point, and include a first portion extending from an opening end to the bend point, and a second portion extending from the bend point to a terminating end. A groove width of the first portion gradually reduces from the opening end to the bend point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Haruna Mizushima
  • Patent number: 11987078
    Abstract: A buoyant vehicle tire device for facilitating driving in muddy soil includes a tire having an exterior wall and a pair of side walls is attached to each one of a pair of side edges of the exterior wall. A vehicle rim is sealed against the end edge of each side wall and encloses a pressurized space between the side walls and the exterior wall of the tire and the vehicle rim. A valve is coupled to the vehicle rim and is in fluid communication with the pressurized space. A plurality of depressions is positioned on the exterior wall and is pushed out from a first position to a second position when the pressurized space receives additional air. The first position of each of the depressions has a container space receiving air when driving in muddy soil, wherein the depressions provide buoyancy to the tire in muddy soil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Inventor: Kevin Malinowski
  • Patent number: 11987079
    Abstract: A transmitter is configured to be integrated with a tire valve attached to a wheel. The transmitter includes a data generating unit, a transmitting unit, and a controlling unit. The data generating unit is configured to generate transmission data. The transmitting unit is configured to transmit the transmission data to a receiver that includes a setting unit that sets a threshold related to control of a vehicle in accordance with a type of the wheel. The controlling unit causes the transmitting unit to transmit the transmission data. The transmission data includes wheel identification information. The wheel identification information is required by the setting unit when setting the threshold and allows the setting unit to recognize the type of the wheel to which the tire valve is attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: PACIFIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasuhisa Tsujita
  • Patent number: 11987080
    Abstract: A portable electronic device and method therein for locating tire sensors on a vehicle is provided. The portable electronic device comprises a camera and RFID circuitry. The portable electronic device determines the tire location of each tire on the vehicle using image recognition on image data from the camera. The portable electronic device also detects one or more tire sensors of each tire via the RFID circuitry as the portable electronic device sequentially guides a user of the portable electronic device via a user interface to motion the portable electronic device in proximity of each tire at each determined tire location. Further, the portable electronic device also identifies each of the one or more detected tire sensors on the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Roman Iustin
  • Patent number: 11987081
    Abstract: A tire pressure monitoring system monitors the pressure in at least one tire supporting a vehicle. The system includes at least one sensor mounted on the tire for measuring a pressure and a temperature of the tire. Transmission means transmit the measured pressure data and temperature data to a processor, and a tire pressure model is executed on the processor. The tire pressure model includes a driving event extractor to extract cold pressure data from the measured pressure data, and a temperature compensator to generate a compensated cold tire pressure from the cold pressure data. A noise filter filters sensor noise and generates a filtered cold tire pressure from the compensated cold tire pressure. A detection module receives the filtered cold tire pressure and determines an air pressure leak rate of the tire, and a leak notification corresponding to the air pressure leak rate is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Kanwar Bharat Singh, Lautaro Dolberg
  • Patent number: 11987082
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a tire pressure and temperature measuring system. More specifically, the system is comprised of an ergonomic and durable tire pressure and temperature gauge that does not require any external buttons, displays, or indicia, and that is capable of measuring the internal pressure and air temperature of a tire. The system is further comprised of an accompanying mobile application or computer-based software program that allows the collected pressure and/or temperature data to be wirelessly transmitted and formatted into a report that is accessible via a user interface on a remote device. The system is also capable of making recommendations to the user based on the collected pressure and/or temperature data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Inventors: Adam M. Kemp, Justin T. Gloeckner, Justin Thaler, Tyler Young, Kenneth J. Coyne
  • Patent number: 11987083
    Abstract: An apparatus enables a commercial vehicle tire hub drum to be attached and detached. The apparatus includes a main body frame having traveling wheels mounted on a lower part thereof and holding means that face forward from the main body frame for holding upright a circular load mounted on a commercial vehicle. An attachment/detachment means executes an attachment/detachment operation of the load from above the holding means. A position adjustment device coupled to the main body frame adjusts the position of the holding means and the attachment/detachment means. Accordingly, the apparatus uses a hydraulic device providing a hydraulic driving force to conveniently attach or detach a load of various sizes to a vehicle from a fixed position while simultaneously adjusting the vertical position of a load-holding means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Inventor: Seong Gi Baek
  • Patent number: 11987084
    Abstract: A materials handling vehicle comprising a hitch system, and a drive mechanism. The hitch system comprises a hitch and a hitch controller. The hitch comprises a latch, one or more sensors, an actuator, and a receiving member. The latch is positionable between open and closed positions. The actuator is positionable between retracted, intermediate, and extended positions. The receiving member is configured to lead a cart hook to engage the latch when in the closed position. The one or more sensors are configured to detect a position of the latch and a presence of the cart hook received within the receiving member. The hitch controller is configured to position the actuator in one of the retracted position, the intermediate position, and the extended position, and to position the latch in one of the open position and the closed position in response to signals received from the one or more sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: CROWN EQUIPMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kevin Gilliland, Adam Wietholter, Michael Grover
  • Patent number: 11987085
    Abstract: An adaptor for connecting an LED lighting unit to a vehicle CAN-bus. The adaptor has a connector connectable to a corresponding connector on a vehicle, to receive a lighting current from the CAN-bus of the vehicle. A wireless power transmitter of the adaptor wirelessly transmits power to the LED lighting unit at a first level, typically suited to LED operation. The adaptor further includes one or more resistors connected between the connector and transmitter and arranged to draw power from the connector at a second power level higher than the first power level, which second power level is suitably equivalent to that for halogen or filament lighting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Sparex Limited
    Inventor: David Wong
  • Patent number: 11987086
    Abstract: An axle arrangement for a baler includes: a first axle with a first end and a second end, the first end being coupled with the chassis by a first leaf spring and a first hydraulic cylinder, the second end being coupled with the chassis by a second leaf spring and a second hydraulic cylinder; a second axle with a first end and a second end, the first end being coupled with the chassis by a first leaf spring and a first hydraulic cylinder, the second end being coupled with the chassis by a second leaf spring and a second hydraulic cylinder; a first hydraulic line fluidly interconnecting the first hydraulic cylinder on the first axle with the first hydraulic cylinder on the second axle; and a second hydraulic line fluidly interconnecting the second hydraulic cylinder on the first axle with the second hydraulic cylinder on the second axle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Frederik Demon, Sven Monbaliu
  • Patent number: 11987087
    Abstract: The invention relates to a load sensor arrangement (100) for installation on a vehicle axle (106) of a vehicle (108). The load sensor arrangement (100) comprises: a non-invasive load sensor (102) for measuring a load subjected to the vehicle axle (106) and a sensor holder (110). The sensor holder (110) comprises a sensor holding portion (112) and a mounting portion (114). The mounting portion (114) is adapted for attachment to the vehicle axle (106), and the sensor holding portion (112) is adapted for holding the load sensor (102) in a position for direct measuring on the vehicle axle (106). The load sensor arrangement (100) comprises an attachment element (118) for releasable connection of said load sensor (102) to said sensor holding portion (112). The invention further relates to a vehicle axle arrangement, a vehicle, a method of installing a non-invasive load sensor on a vehicle axle, and the use of a load sensor arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Volvo Truck Corporation
    Inventors: Jörgen Andersson, Emmanuel Bue